Amazon's "lock on all of that" has pretty much ruined their brand from a retail ...

		wmeredith on June 21, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Etsy slashes almost a quarter of its staff Amazon's "lock on all of that" has pretty much ruined their brand from a retail seller standpoint. They're catalogue is overrun with garbage and counterfeits. It's quickly becoming eBay. I used to look at stuff in brick and mortar stores and then buy from Amazon. Now I look on Amazon for research and buy from brick and mortar stores so I know I'm not buying Chinese counterfeit garbage.

No arguments there, but to be clear I was speaking primarily to the Alibaba -> FBA pipeline.